Post 7: An expert / person in your field that you admire

Hello, well today I will talk about Griselda Hinojosa. She was a woman who deserves the admiration of people and more if she is a pharmaceutical chemist. Because she was part of the first generation of women who graduated in chemistry and pharmacy also from the Universidad de Chile.

This means a big change in Chile in terms of the position of women within Chilean society.

Because during these years there was a very conservative society. She was a pioneer in representing feminism. She was born in Copiapó in 1875, the daughter of Pablo Hinojosa and Mercedes Flores.


She studied in “Escuela Particular de Niñas Rafael Valdés” and the “Liceo de Niñas de Copiapó”. She then entered to study chemistry and pharmacy at the Universidad de Chile. He graduated on December 1899 with the thesis Contribution to the study of Solanum Tomatillo.


Also as I mentioned she was part of the first group of women to receive a university degree in Chile, after the issuance of the Amunátegui decree in 1877, among whom were the physicians Eloísa Díaz (1886) and Ernestina Pérez (1887) and the lawyers Matilde Throup (1892) and Matilde Brandau (1898). He practiced his profession in the “Botica y Droguería Copiapó” until 1909, and in the Manuel Antonio Matta Pharmacy, located on the homonymous avenue in Santiago

Sadly she passed away in 1959.

Thanks for reading!!